Carriage-curtain light



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P. A. NEIDER.

CARRIAGE GURTAIN LIGHT. No. 391,068. Patented Oct. 16, 1888.

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FRED A. NEIDER, OF AUGUSTA, KENTUCKY.

CARRIAGE-CURTAIN LIGHT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,063, dated October 16, 1888.

Application filed May 23, 1888. Serial No. 274,854.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED A. NEIDER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Augusta, in the county of Bracken and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carriage-Curtain Lights, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is a secure means for attaching carriage-curtain lights in place and insuring a smooth perfect finish on both sides of the curtain. The invention will be first fully described in connection with the accompanying drawings, and then particularly referred to and pointed out in the claims.

.Referring to the drawings, in which like parts are indicated by similar reference-letters wherever they occur throughout the various views, Figure 1 is a transverse sectional VlGW, upon agreatly enlarged scale, of a carriage-curtain light embodying my improvements and secured to a curtain. Fig. 2 is an inside plan view of the attaching-frame for the inside of the curtain, as shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an inside elevation of a modified form. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional View of the two frames detached, the inside frame in this case being of the form shown in Fig. 8. Fig. 5 is a similar view of the frames which are shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

The outside frame, A, having clinchingpoints a to pass through the curtain B and hold the glasslight Gin place, is of well-kn0wn form and constructed in the usual manner. It is therefore not necessary to describe it specifically. My invention inheres in the inside frame, D, and in the method of securing the outside frame and glass to the curtain by means of it.

The face or outside of the frame D may be formed up to any shape the taste or fancy of the constructer may adopt; but either its inner or outer edge must be returned against the inside of the face molding, leaving a space to receive the clinching-points a, either through perforations in the returned lap or under the inturned edge, which is afterward flattened down, curving and clinching the points between the folds of the frame.

In Figs. 1, 2, and 5 the lap d is turned inward from the outer edge of the frame and is (No model.)

perforated at d near the edge. The perforations are spaced to correspond with the clinching-points a.

In Figs. 3 and 4 the lap d is turned from the inner edges of the frame I) and extends nearly to the outer edges, or to that portion of the molding which begins to curve inward. The clinching-points'passing near the inturncd edges and striking against the curved portion of the molding will be turned under the edge and clamped firmly as the inside frame is forced or driven home.

It will be seen that only two frames are necessary to secure the light firmly to the curtain, completely conceal the fastening-points, and make a smooth ornamental finish on both sides of the curtain.

To secure the light in the curtain, the glass and outside frame, A, are first placed in position by passing the points a through the curtain in the usual manner. The inside frame, D, is then placed upon the inside of the curtain opposite the frame A, with the clinchingpoints a passed into the perforations d, if the form of frame shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 5 is used, after which the frame D is forced down tightly against the curtain, the clinchingpoints a being by this operation turned under the lap d and between it and the face of the frame. The edge of the lap is now pressed or hammered down flat against the curtain, firmly clinching the points and clamping the glass and the curtain between the two frames. NVhen the form of frame shown in Figs. 3 and 4 is used, the clinching-points pass the edge of thelap d. The operation of forcing the two frames against the curtain and glass is the same as before described.

It is obvious that the form of the frame may be varied, and that many more mechanical changes may be made in the structure of the two frames without departing from the spirit or scope of my invention.

vyVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An inside clinching-frame for carriagecurtain lights, consisting, essentially, of the frame D, having one of its edges folded under, leaving a space between theinside folded part and the exterior molding to receive the clinching-points of an outer frame.

2. The frame D, having the underturned ing-points a, and the inside frame, D, having edges or laps d and perforations (1, said perunderturned lap 02, for the purpose of clamping 1o forations being opposite the curved portion of the frames upon opposite sides of a carriagethe molding opposite, for the purpose of turncurtain.

5 ing the ciinching'points of an outside frame FRED A- NEIDER.

under the lap d, for the purpose set forth. Witnesses:

3. The combination, substantially as speci- J OHN M. HARBESON, fied, of the outside frame, A, having olineh- BEN HARBESON. 

